As Adam correctly says, the Belco set remains in private (good) hands and the Archive negotiated their loan a) to digitise and publish on the Archive web site and b) to allow them to be scanned to get accurate formulations. These are the paints Adam now supplies. The beauty about the 2 sets we had access to (1936 and 1939 - both from the same source) have known provenance and have been permanently kept in the box in the dark so are, to all intents and purposes, as accurate as the day they were produced. I have not seen the ATDC set, though did share with them details of the sets we know about, but I gather they are not in such a good condition.
Picking up on PAZ205's post, I have a 1933 RP saloon and when I repainted it in the 70s, I rubbed back the added black paint on the body to reveal the original paint beneath. It was a *very* dark blue, almost darker than conventional Royal Blue. Though having looked at the 1936 Royal Blue -
http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/pain...em/PC0001/?
It could very well be similar - though the caveat on that is the colour calibration of the screen you are looking at it on...
hth...
Picking up on PAZ205's post, I have a 1933 RP saloon and when I repainted it in the 70s, I rubbed back the added black paint on the body to reveal the original paint beneath. It was a *very* dark blue, almost darker than conventional Royal Blue. Though having looked at the 1936 Royal Blue -
http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/pain...em/PC0001/?
It could very well be similar - though the caveat on that is the colour calibration of the screen you are looking at it on...
hth...